Whether you wish to immerse yourself in the story of the Silk Road, explore what being famous has meant through the ages, or read about the Islamic Enlightenment, here you’ll find our brilliant selection of books on world history. Browse our new and bestselling books on African, American, Asian, Australasian & Pacific, European and Middle Eastern history, as well as the volumes that span the globe and mine our shared, interconnected past. From Peter Frankopan to Yuval Noah Harari, and from William Dalrymple to Max Hastings, let acclaimed authors and historians take you on eye-opening journeys across continents and millennia.
The Silk Roads
The Golden Road
The Shortest History of Economics
Challenger
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
The Greatest Nobodies of History
The Rest is History Returns
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
Queens at War
The Traitors Circle
The Revolutionists
Goliath’s Curse
Between the Waves
Allies at War
This Way Up
On This Horrible Day in History
The Traitors Circle
Diaries of Note
Goliath’s Curse
Equality Is a Struggle
Earth Shapers
Women Who Ruled the World
Homo Criminalis
10 Mistakes That Changed History
The Genius Myth
The Hiroshima Men
Peak Human
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
The Einstein Vendetta
The Golden Road
Challenger
The Greatest Nobodies of History
The Shortest History of Italy
The Rest is History Returns
A Short History of the World in 50 Lies
A Little History of the World
A History of the World in Twelve Shipwrecks
Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries
This Earthly Globe
The Carnation Revolution
The Shortest History of Migration
The Burning Earth
Four Points of the Compass
A selection of classic paperbacks
The Silk Roads
On Tyranny
A History of the World in 100 Objects
The Boundless Sea
Histories of Nations
A History of the World in 21 Women
The Great Cities in History
The Golden Thread
Pale Rider
Threads of Life
Waves Across the South
The Colour of Time: A New History of the World, 1850-1960
The Origins of Political Order
A History of the World in Twelve Maps
Revolutions
This Way Up
The Making of the Middle Ages
A History of England in 25 Poems
London: The Hidden Corners For Curious Wanderers
The Library of Lost Maps
Forgotten London
Why Is Downing Street Painted Black?
Ancient Magic in Greece and Rome
Britain’s Landmarks and Legends
The Military History Book
I'm No Expert, But ...
A History of Ghosts, Spirits and the Supernatural
Gimson’s Kings and Queens
History Year by Year
A History of the World in 500 Maps
Murder Maps
Mortimer's A to Zs of English History
If Russia Wins
Putin’s People
The Gates of Europe
In Wartime
You Don't Know What War Is
The Russo-Ukrainian War
The Return of Russia
The Descent
The Showman
UKRAINE The Forging of a Nation
A Nasty Little War
Diary of an Invasion
A Message from Ukraine
I Love Russia
A Small Town in Ukraine
Lost Kingdom
Dictatorland
'Exterminate All The Brutes'
The Emperor
There Was a Country
The State of Africa
The Looting Machine
How Europe Underdeveloped Africa
Zulu Rising
A Fistful of Shells
Empires in the Sun
The Book Smugglers of Timbuktu
The Gardens of Mars
The Scramble For Africa
An African History of Africa
Long Walk To Freedom
King Leopold's Ghost
Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Witches
The American Civil War
How to Hide an Empire
The American West
One Summer
Alexander Hamilton
Black Spartacus
The Earth is Weeping
A Promised Land
Nuclear Folly
Gimson's Presidents
The Playbook
A Little History of the United States
The Anarchy
Wild Swans
The Shortest History of China
The Japanese Myths
Nothing To Envy
The Shortest History of India
The Story of China
The Korean Myths
Genghis Khan
The Ottomans
The Great Empires of Asia
Red Memory
The Hong Kong Diaries
Be More Japan
Sea People
The Fatal Shore
Terra Nullius
The Commonwealth of Thieves
The Palace Letters
Batavia's Graveyard
Thicker Than Water
Aboriginal Australians
Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All
The Great Race
The Sleepwalkers
The Shortest History of Europe
Lotharingia
To Hell and Back
The Pursuit of Power
Last Days in Old Europe
Europe's Tragedy
The Great Sea
Vanished Kingdoms
Reformation
The Lost Café Schindler
The Inheritance of Rome
The Habsburgs
The Pursuit of Glory
Agents of Empire
Orientalism
A Line in the Sand
Revolutionary Iran
A History of the Arab Peoples
A History of the Middle East
The Story of the Jews
Black Wave
The Islamic Enlightenment
Islamic Empires
Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms
The Great War for Civilisation
The Life and Legend of the Sultan Saladin
The Fall of the Ottomans
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